Pining Wind: A Cycle of Nō Plays (Cornell East Asia Series #17)

Royall Tyler (Translator)

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Publication Date: March 31st, 2010

Publisher:

Cornell East Asia Series

ISBN:

9780939657179

Pages:

198

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Description

Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of noh in the original.

-- "Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese.

About the Author

Royall Tyler is the most recent translator of The Tale of Genji (Penguin, 2001). He lives in Australia.

Pining Wind: A Cycle of Nō Plays (Cornell East Asia Series #17)

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About the Author

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